Guest blog by ex-student of Copland High School
Hi Richard,
I understand you are very busy but I have to assume that your failure to reply to our request via my e-mail below is a no.
That you are not prepared to provide any help or assistance in supporting these students outside your existing commitments and legal requirements.
I hope you will not mind too much if I inform students, parents and interested parties of your non-response as I feel they have a right to know.
Regards
Phil Allman
As an Ex-Copland student, I found it absolutely alarming and ridiculous when I familiarised myself with the manner a previous teacher of mine along with some students are being treated by the senior management of Copland High School.
Mr. Philip Allman, a renowned ex Politics and Humanities Teacher at Copland High School has been refused the right to voluntarily offer support, help and guidance to struggling A2 pupils in Year 13. I find it preposterous, that with a challenging Economy, Job Market and ever rising competition in the places at UK Universities, that offering help voluntarily during retirement is neglected by so called caring head teachers. Mr Allman is being prevented from helping the pupils who had fallen behind offering unconditional support and help in his own time.
His request for access to a classroom on site has been completely ignored by the management at Copland High School. He has to teach them at another local school 2 miles away !!!!
What I find even more disturbing is that, Mr Allman was a very successful teacher at Copland for the best part of 30 or so years and is now being treated in a disgraceful and disrespectful manner - I have included the email request that Mr Allman sent to Richard Marshall (Current Headmaster of Copland High School), A number of sixth form pupils are having to travel a few miles to the another high school on Friday afternoons leaving them exhausted, mentally and physically fatigued at the end of a long academic week.
Mr.Allman, retired along with several additional teachers being offered voluntary redundancy last year,He has voluntarily taught a number of Copland students who had fallen behind in there exams as they had no teacher for over 6 weeks .However he is prevented from providing assistance and support within the school!!!! The Head doesn't seem to care!!![https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/images/cleardot.gif]()
I would strongly request that you email a link to this blog or something similar to as many people as possible, currently at Copland High School, ex-students, teachers in the local borough and senior figures you may know who can make a real influence towards how circumstances such as these, get solved with a positive result. It is of my utmost importance that this issue gets properly resolved, and the management of Copland is exposed to the level that they deserve.
Yours Faithfully,
Mohammed Fazal Farooq
Subject: FW: Politics A2 REQUEST
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 10:50:09 +0000Hi Richard,
I understand you are very busy but I have to assume that your failure to reply to our request via my e-mail below is a no.
That you are not prepared to provide any help or assistance in supporting these students outside your existing commitments and legal requirements.
I hope you will not mind too much if I inform students, parents and interested parties of your non-response as I feel they have a right to know.
Regards
Phil Allman